That answer from Inej isn't exactly encouraging. Steve doesn't think she means to be dismissive, exactly, but she also doesn't seem entirely ready to believe him either. He gets it. This looks bad, anyone with eyes can tell that much.

But he's gotten himself out a lot of seemingly impossible situations, even traveled through time itself to make it happen. So he drops his current corn husk into his lap for a moment and tilts his head to find her gaze, then reaches out and takes her shoulder.

"Hey. Listen to me. We're getting out of here. There's no other option, all right?" Remove the very idea of failure from your mind, and the only way is up.